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It's obviously not your bag, but rules that differentiate the use of modern weapons are on page 56 of the Agent's Handbook (single shot, short/long burst, short/long spray).

It's a good rule for automatic weapons fire, which will involve practically all of modern firearms combat. What do you dislike about Lethality?

Swords of the Serpentine uses Corruption with its spellcasting.

Delta Green is nearly identical to CoC 7th edition and literally has a mechanic called Lethality. I would mention others but if you think DG is too streamlined, you won't be interested.

Along with Pirates of Drinax and the Dracula Dossier. The only reason I didn't nominate him is that these days he tends to stick to campaigns and not systems.

PirateCat's run of a demo here shows otherwise. Once you accept the fact that Gumshoe allows for success when you want it, it's a much better fit. I've run and played it for a decade, and it does the Bourne thing just fine. As for SotS and four color fantasy, the apparent mismatch has more to...

Supers fight the Red Necromancer!

I'll give a shout out to Kevin Kulp, most recently the co author of Swords of the Serpentine. He has a gift for writing rules-light versions of Gumshoe games.

I've never been in a game where increased IC roleplay (whatever this is) was worse than OOC 3rd party description. So my TL/DR answer is yes. However, the goal of roleplaying at the table should never discourage talking about things OOC. Sometimes 30 seconds of clarification can avoid two hours...

The benefits of group collaboration on a setting outweigh any disadvantages. But the degree that a setting needs tinkering is always one of personal choices.

If you like horror, the Delta Green material is fantastic.

System mastery is an enjoyable part of a game for some players.

If I am buying something primarily as inspiration, I care less about graphics since I'll probably be using a tablet. But I do think art has a greater effect on me nowadays.

For me a bad GM is inconsistent. Their application of the rules is unreliable, regardless of whether it's due to inexperience or insistence to stay on the plot. A bad player doesn't care about the fun of his fellow players, especially if called out about it. I suppose this applies to GMs too.

When he wrote The Yellow King RPG, Robin Laws changed the combat system into one that has the players identify their goal (defeat the foe/capture the foe/run away/et c) and has each participant make a single roll towards it. This would be an interesting use of the Genesys system, in a similar...

GURPS WW2 Weird War Two - odd title, but great book. Packed to the rafters with useful stuff for any 20th Century campaign.

The d20 framework gave publishers an incentive to use it for everything at the same time you noticed the opinions. Prior to that, Steve Jackson and Chaosium weren't necessarily trying to push their universal roll-under systems into competition for D&D players. And as Crimson Longinus notes...

I have played in several campaigns, plus a Star Wars demo where we were rebels with no Force powers. I like the second axis of threat/advantage, although the rules don't really use the latter mechanically outside of combat or chases IIRC. I think a stricter mechanical use in other instances...

My point is that roll under and roll over are not opposites. The probabilities may be the same, but the mechanics are fundamentally different. I don't think it makes a difference in a percentile system if you are modifying the roll or the range. Whether you focus on zero or the target number...

I like the Delta Green system, which is blackjack plus doubles is a critical success/failure.